Heavenly Creatures


DVD Title:	Heavenly Creatures
Genre:	Drama
Director:
Actors:	Cast List
Movie Year:	1994
ASIN:	B00006ADFL
Disc Number/Location:	1048

Description:
A starkly original film-going experience based on a true life story, this film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson (Dead Alive, The Frighteners) is a stirring drama that offers up the unexpected. The story concerns two girls, outcasts who become best friends, whose bizarre fantasy life becomes more intense as their bond becomes increasingly more obsessive. When the mother of one of the girls tries to intervene and split the girls apart, they kill her and stand trial for murder in what is to this day still a celebrated and controversial case. Kate Winslet (Titanic) and Melanie Lynskey create two sympathetic and yet uncomfortably eerie characters in riveting portrayals. Featuring some startling and unique moments of visual brilliance as well as a disturbing love story between the two girls, Heavenly Creatures is at once both unsettling and beautiful to behold. --Robert Lane

Cast List:

Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Yvonne (Parker) Rieper
Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme
Sarah Peirse as Honorah Parker Rieper
Diana Kent as Hilda Hulme
Clive Merrison as Dr. Henry Hulme
Simon O'Connor as Herbert Rieper
Jed Brophy as John ('Nicholas')
Peter Elliott as Bill Perry
Gilbert Goldie as Dr. Bennett
Geoffrey Heath as Rev. Norris
Kirsti Ferry as Wendy
Ben Skjellerup as Jonathon Hulme
Darien Takle as Miss Stewart
Elizabeth Moody as Miss Waller
Liz Mullane as Mrs. Collins
Moreen Eason as Mrs. Stevens
Pearl Carpenter as Mrs. Zwartz
Lou Dobson as Grandma Parker
Jesse Griffin as Laurie

Glen Drake as Steve
Nic Farra as Boarder
Chris Clarkson as Boarder
Ray Henwood as Professor
John Nicoll as Professor
Mike Maxwell as Professor
Raewyn Pelham as Laura
Toni Jones as Agnes Ritchie
Glenys Lloyd-Smith as Miss Digby
Wendy Watson as Mrs. Bennett
Jean Guérin as Orson Welles
Stephen Reilly as Mario Lanza
Andrea Sanders as Diello
Ben Fransham as Charles
Jessica Bradley as Pauline Rieper, at 5 years
Alex Shirtcliffe-Scott as Juliet Hulme, at 5 years
Barry Thomson as Farmer / Policeman
Kylie Cushman as Student - Class 3a (uncredited)
Peter Jackson as Bum outside theater (uncredited)

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